The Supreme
came
to
Dr. Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany In 1921-22, a volun- tory exile in Paris for the last six years, as he arrived in New York, recently. Hc America to make a personal study of American government, but as a private citizen be pre- ferred to avold politient discus- slons.
Navy's Growing Strength
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 17, 1939.
NAVY CAN FACE GROUP OF FOES Little To Fear From Submarines
THE great and growing might of the British Navy and the confidence of the Admiralty that, in its modern- ised form, it had little to fear from submarines or aero- planes, raised the spirits of the House of Commons recently when the Navy Estimates of £149,000,000 were discussed.
The depression of the day before gave place to pride in the supremacy of the Navy.
Even Mr. Churchill consented to be happy and found little to criticise. He said
found to be submerged in certain areas in the Mediterranean. After: the announcement no case of piracy occurred. He left members to draw their own deductions.
"It la refreshing for us in these times to take an evening off from black cure and dwell on the great and growing strength of our Navy, and feel confident that the new Inventions in the nir and under As for air attack, our modern ships the water, properly countered as could produce a volume of defensive they have been and are being, do fre that would drive alreratt to any decisive degree deprive such a height that the accurney of us of the measureless resources of their attack would be seriously im- sen power, with all that has so paired, often followed in its train."
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Latest. picture of the former Princess. Fawzia, 17, of Egypt. and her husband, Crown Prince Mohammed Riza Shapor of Iran.^. They signed their marriage contract last month, in Cairo, and; had real wedding in Teheran later.
Paris Offers You....
Dress Design Done By Boy Of Seven
PARIS.
The House as a whole-though rather go bombing a battleship in Mr. Alexander, former Labour First in aircraft or be bombed by an air- Supplemnting the encouraging ac- Lord of the Admiralty, was anxious craft a battleship, his choice count of the British Fleet recently about German and Italian sub- would be to remain in the battle- In tho Mediterranean-ship every time. (Cheers and given by the Financial Secretary to marines
agree. the Admiralty in the House of Com-seemed mons, Lord Stanhope,
EVEN SINGLE-HANDED First Lord of
Improved systems of under-water The submarine the Admiralty, told members of the
menace? "We protection had also been worked Constitutional Club recently that the have got the measure of the sub-cut to prevent the torpedo or mine declared Mr. Church!}], from Inflicting a vital blow or chus- Fleet was both efficient and sufficient marine," for the work it might be called upon who knew what it meant when he ing such damage that a capital chip
at the Admiralty, during the could not stay in action. lo do whatever that work mikht be.
Defensively armed merchant shipa Lord Stanhope pointed out that Great War,
Piato X. Chan, son of a Chinese design, was used for an evening Command of the Mediterranean?- would be escorted by escort vessela last year 43 warships joined the
gown and headdress; another Ficet. This year a further 60 would "There should be no dificulty," he specially equipped with anti-akraft diplumal, held a London art show "sari,
He has designed three showed colourful little men and don- financial suld
with equal confidence, "In armament. Close co-operation with last year. join the Fleet, and in the
keys, and a third, used for an after- year 1939-40, which we were about securing this, even if we were en- the R.A.F. would be essential as striking materials. to enter, no fewer than 200 warships guged single-handed. Although the such convoys approached our coasts. The Fleet air orm was making would be in some stage of construc- great new fleets that are being con-
was
tion in the private and Royal dock-structed are not yet ready, we have good progress. By 1942 the person- yards of this country. Costs were an ample superiority of sea power nel should have Increased to 10,000 Bircraft would be of the higher, largely because the lessons available not only to secure but to and the
comparable total learnt at Jutland were now being hold the command of the Mediter- latest type,
Ins pul into operation.
ranean."
strength to the RAF. of ten years In every war in which we had been The developments, he added, inj ago.
anti-air-
WHY SCRAP THEM? engaged we had always regretted that anti-submarine measures,
gunnery, we did not have more small ships, craft
and
structural Approval had been obtained for two
flotilins
reasonably expect of destroyers and in we might
new
very small
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Chinese boy artist and France's foremost surrealist poet have made the leading designs for some of the new Paris dress materials.
One in soft pink, with a flower noon frock, had little angel children
and teddy bears.
Czechs Ordered
To 'Hail' Also
ROWS OF FACES
The more sophisticated M. Coc- teau, whose Intest play shocked Paris clly councillors so much that they forbade the continuance of its pro- duction in a municipal theatre, de- signed a striped material with rows comels whose flory tails were
La future, the Czech greeting (by All that seemed seriously to worry order) will be the lifting of the right alterations to ships were such that Mr. Churchil was the Admiralty's arm and the phrase "Hall Father women's Inces and a silk
that decision to serap old battleships of Ianul."
It
(with
carried out in jewellery.
birns and cupids, foot-high squirrels Other gay new designs had cheru- and green trees, angels perched on
addition 20 new fast escort Ves the craft would make itself felt as ef- with 15-inch guns. He thought they ments made recently by the Czech our great preponderance of surface the Royal Sovereign class armed This was one of the pronounce- That Was real iperesse in the strength and hitting capacity of the fectively in the future as it had in would be very useful for protecting Commiten of National Community Fleet. The new tribal and I classes the past-preponderance that would convoys of merchant ships on the (the Nazis' new puppet "Parla-clouds and St. Peter's keys embroi- of destroyers would be of 1,020 tons, be greater if the British and French broad seas. He pressed the Government."
dered in beads. almost small
They were
Reels were cruisers.
combined, as no doubt ment to keep them.
and Jewellery
trimmings have Ma Jor Gwllym
They further decreed that women. they would be.
Lloyd George very fast, they had a fine armament,
He was no more confident than (Lib., Pembroke) was not quite except those of the German minority worked up to a grand finale of giltter they were good sea boats and were
and gold this week-end. There are the Admiralty, hoppy about submarines. the spokesman for
was should take no part in politics. handy. The escort vessola, chlos of 000 tons, again had Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare (Parlla disquieting, he said, to find that, in The Committee announced a mea-choker necklaces of gold tinsel, rib- high Admiralty), who spile of our anti-submarine devices sure of forced labour general la-bon, leaves and flowers,
EVENING PUTTEE anti-aircraft and
Every citizen will have
Ribbon dog collars have long pen- that ought "We believe that our feet is so countries
to know ali to do a It can strong to-day that
The unemployed wit be.hered in dant beads and gold chains. There con-about submarine warfare were still fidently accept a direct challenge going on building submarines. labour camps, as in Germany, and no is even a headdress whose dangling in baitle by any probable com-! He pressed on the Government the workers are to be allowed to migrate gold and enamel flowers hung over bination of foes,'
advantages of Pembroke as an Ad- to Germany, where there is labour the forehead almost to the tip of the
shortage. Members who had sat silent and miralty base. slum the day before cheered heart!-
anti-submarine said:
work; they hoped to produce them very rapidly and have them at sex probably next year.
MERCHANT SHIP PROTECTION
In addition they were doing a tremendous work in the dockyards in the modernization of ships and in the strengthening of the decks of ships of the mercantile marine so that they could take anti-submarine and even- tually anti-aircraft guns. They had to wait until these ships came into port to undertake the work, which could
be done only when the owners could are them
spare from their ordinary duties, but by the end of the year they hoped that 1,000 of these ships would have been converted.
The men The men
the ot the
Navy
were
magnificent figures 5- great, deep-
rai p [ny pue
'wow passage strength, as alive and keen as mus tard. That was not surprising. Last year they took in as recruits an ad- ditional officers and
had no fewer than 70,080 applicants
There were more cheers when Mr. Shakespeare gave figures to show how the fleet that, even to-day. could accept such a' challenge was to be strengthened. This year our yards would be engaged in building some 200 vessels; Including:-
Battleships Aircraft-curricra Cruisers Destroyers
Submarines
end the success of the convoy system, bourer of days' work—with 1
Famine Reported in Abyssinia:
Tribesmen Still
Fighting On
FOOD COLUMNS WAYLAID
1.080.
Tiny evening bootees are still very fashionable and under a long skirt slit to the knee one house is showing a contrasting chiffon "puitee" wound round one leg and tled with a huge bow at the ankle.
No Divorce For
Insane Man's Wife
Jibut! (French Somaliland). Italy I discovering that the hope she cherished before the Ethiopia war of transforming Abyssinia into a productive part of the Italian Em-Fitze zone, about fifty miles from of desertion? This was a question
19
to
our pire cannot easily be fulfilled.
an of
He discussed, only to dismiss, the
potential menaces action supremacy-direct
three enemy fleet: submarines; air attack "BEST IN THE WORLD"
He has a nondescript tumy of about the 10,000
concentrated. In mca,
Addis Ababa.
attacks
Itollan He constantly Economically, Abyssinia slipping
motorised columns conveying food steadily from bad to worst.
Trade is stagnant: Italian overlord- und ammunition Into Addis Ababa.
are
and for could except the chief
Cun an insane husband be guilty
involved in a Divorce Court decision recently.
Mr. Justice Langton dismissed the petition of Mrs. June Dorothy
Moreton, Williams, of
Wallasey, wito
fidently accept battic from any pro-shiky, a resentful native population destroyed, drivers and soldiers are Cheshire, wire sought dissolution of to All these vacancies.
for the constantly harry the Italians com- killed, officers are held us hostages. Williards, who was certified in 1934 anyone bable combination. As
The Abyssinian "rebels," however on the grounds on desertion.. wanted to see what this nation could second, he could not reveal the nn-mercially and in the Beld. produce le! them go somewhere in ture and extent of our progress in These are the considered conclu- are at present unable to do great
It was contended that a person who the neighbourhood of the three great sclentine anti-submarine warfare, stons of a responsible neutral investi-hari because of lack of cohesion and
was insane and under physical re- the absence of a strong leader... nuval ports. They would see that so but he believed our methods of de- gator.
He was able to obtain confidentin) It is generally believed that the straint so that he could not return if far as the naval population was con- texting, hunting, and killing sub-
could not be said to have deserted cerned we were not a C3 nation, but marines were more advanced than information about the true situation Italian military authorities will suche wished as Mr. Williams Was
ceed in exterminating them progres- his wife for the three years imme- prevailing in Abyssinia. any other in the world.
He had taken part in a hunt for There are, despite vigorous Itailan sively.
dinfcly
her pelition.. proceding But the impression was gained by whose posl-repressive measures, according to this
investigator that the "rebel" PRISON COMPARISON submerged submarines tlon was unknown, and in nine cases informant, still many Abyssintun the out of ten,
Italian rule. located.
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Hanoi-Kunming-Chungking-Chengtu Line Evory Thu, & Sat. from Hanai, to Kunming Every Sun, Wed. & Fri. from Kunming to Chungking
the exact position was chieftains who refuse to submit to tribesmen need only, to receive regu- The judge auld it was true that Mt. Every Mon.. Wod. & Fri. from Chungking to Kunming
NEED OF ARTIFICERS They were at the moment short of artlicers. In four or five years that deficiency would end because they were training boys to become arti-
A former police chief is declared to the great engineering firms to try to that in January, 1930, we announced be the principal chieftain still in "re- get some of their apprentices into the that we would sink any submarine! volt" and the best organised. Fleet to complete their training The British Navy in, these days deserved not only the sui
sympathy support and of the
country, for Uat they had al- ways had, but the warm, expressed approval of
the
of this country they
were that He Ficeti was both efficient and sufficient for the work it might be called upon
acers. They were in touch with all Members might recall, he said,
that
do whatever that work might be.
Mr. R. B. Bennett sald that the
great
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Vowed To Be Doctor, Began Study At 70
SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Mr.
change he had seen-in-the Robert Battersby, second-year medi-
morale of the people of this country cai student at University College, is
to be accounted for due to sit for his first medical pro-- in fessional examination in June, and be
Dnt advance made
by the
the development of the powers of claims to be the oldest medical stud. the Novy. No man could deny that ent in the world.
IT
this
freedom.
the British Fleet had police the Clerk of Hereford-until-he-retired an world for a century. the guardian of human liberty, even 1920, studies in ideal circumstances. Island had maintained "It is just a hobby," he said. "If I find the course too hard I can give up studying, but I would like to take the degree."
Mr. Battersby is studying for the degrees of M.R.C.S. and M.R.C.P.
the Mr. Battersby, who was Town
Sir Patrick Hannon. M.P., said that the one consolation we had in these troublous 'days was that the Fleet Was in the condition it was to-day.
"When I was a boy my father gave "He told me I could enter added.
If there were one single thought that mo a choice of three carcers," be animated the minds of dictators it
was the fear of the British Fleet the Church; study medicine or the upon the seas of the world.
· FEW · TOLEDO HOUSES
VACANT
Toledo, O
Jaw.
HIS VOW
"Soon aferwards I found myself a law student, and it was then, after I had paid my premium and my fees, that I found myself attracted to medi- cine.
FATHER AND SON BEHEADED
BERLIN.
A father and son were beheaded here for botraying_military secrets to a foreign Power.
Johannes Bikoľajovsky (95) and his 22-year-old son Frits, were found guilty of passing · informa- Hon-which Fritz obtained whe on military service to the agent
Every Wed. & Fri, .... from Chungking to Chengtu and return fur supplies of food and ammunition Williams was restrained much us a
from Kunming to Hanoi to become dangerous.
man in prison was restrained, but Every Wod, & Fri. This will not come about, however, whereas the man in prison could and even given, ex-
Kunming-Chengtu-Sian-Lanchow Line except in the event of a European have formed, war, when anti-Italian nations might pression to a change of mind be tempted to harm and feed the tri-heart towards his wife, Mr. Williams Every Thu. & Sat, from Kunming to Lanchow via Chengru & Stan besmen in the hope of creating awas quite incapable of any mental or Evory Sun. & Fri, from Lanchow to Kunming via Sian
diversion.
PESTILENCE
moral activity.
and
"This distinction appears to me," The judge said. "to touch the core of the present care and to determine in favour of the husband,
The informant sold the Abyssinian natives were disgusted by Italian rule and terrorised by the treatment aller-
"The regret which I feel at being ; ed to have been inflicted on them.
Food is terribly scarce, There have obliged to refuse a decree to the wife been several serious outbreaks of tempered by the consideration that pestilents in the chief towns, nolab-within the inpse of a short time she ly Diredawu, Recently 100 to 150may have another remedy open to her The petition, however, must be deaths were occurring there daily-
11 is computed that reveral thous dismissed. ands have died from discase in recent months in the Diredawn zone, where
many villages have been completely £69,000 To Science,
wiped out.
The Italians to-day are maintain- ing approximately between20,000 and 90,000 troops in Abyssinia, Sema-
Birds, Insects.
liland and Eritrea. More than one-and insects and the advancement of
half of these are coloured troops.
of a foreign Fower, presumably Peer's Daughter Will Colage, Backing, Esack.
Poland. They lived at
near the Polish frontier, at the time of the offence.
This brings the total of exccu- Hona in, Germany this year to 40. nearly all of them for altered espionage.
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The preservation of British birds
science are the main objects of big legacies made in the £101,057 wili of Mr. William Setten
of The
Afr. Gilies, who we formerly inanaging chemist at Courtauld's Silk Factory, Bocking, lett- £28,000 to re- The Hon. Ruth Lever, 25-years-old latives and £2,000 cach to ins doughter of Lord. Leverhulme, has friends, Geoffrey Harrison and
13-weeks lease of the Arthur D. taken a
Constable. After other Royalty Theatre, Cliester, to, run a gifts, he directed that the residua repertory theatre,
should be divided between; "My family know nothing
of it at all," she said.
"I am running it
una
The Cloth workers Company, for the establishment of Reső 2ch Fellowships in selence;
I vowed that if ever-I had the for studying medicine, and Professor by myself. I shall, collect why an
A survey of this city of 300,000 has time and the money I would quality Kirk of this college told me that there shown less than 3 per cent vacancy as a doctor,
was not. He raised no objection to actors from all over the country, and of homes. The survey Indicated "a "When I retired I had a rest for allowing me to enter provided I could put on modern, and 'classic' ploys. decrease in the vacancy: per cent two or three years, bul attended | Pass my: preliminary examination My producer will be Dr. Stephan since 1933. The vacancy ralio was medical lectures now and again.
within a year. I did so and became Hock, an Aurion, who land Bergner 11, percent; that year.. the phase “I asked if there was.un dge limit a student here in October, 1937." as a pupil.
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